Julie Brown is Reader in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications include Bartok and the Grotesque: Studies in Modernity, The Body and Contradiction in Music, and Western Music and Race, which was awarded the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award.
Annette Davison is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications include Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s, Alex North's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Film Score Guide, and, with Erica Sheen, American Dreams, Nightmare Visions: The Cinema of David Lynch.